Zilda

Last seen for girls in 1925 at #4,973

Peak · girls
1897 · 5 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
66
since 1897

Zilda over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Zilda has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201919peak #1,555, 1897girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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1925#4,9735
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1922#5,0095
1921#5,0995
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1919#4,2516
1918#4,8095
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1916#3,2588
1915#4,2745
1914#3,1886
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1912#2,9795
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1905#1,9315
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1900#1,7236
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1897#1,5555
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First appearance
1897

The first year at least five girls were named Zilda! It came in at #1,555, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1897–1899, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

See more about Zilda
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1925
Rise & fade · girls
Peaked on debut
  • Debuted 1897
  • Peaked 1897 at #1,555 (5 births)
  • Births halved by 1898, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 46,840
  • Highest: 1 in 46,840 girls born in 1897 were named Zilda (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 243,477 girls born in 1925 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1910s
  • 53.0% of all girls named Zilda (35) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1890s5#1,555 (1897)#1,555
1900s11#1,723 (1900)#1,827
1910s35#2,979 (1912)#3,793
1920s15#4,973 (1925)#5,027

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Zilda in 1919

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#4,251
6 births · 1 in 188,353 girls

Top girls' names in 1919

  1. #1Mary65,836
  2. #2Helen33,706
  3. #3Dorothy31,733
  4. #4Margaret26,238
  5. #5Ruth24,562
  6. #6Mildred17,300
  7. #7Virginia15,636
  8. #8Elizabeth15,287
  9. #9Frances15,106
  10. #10Anna14,498
  11. #4,251Zilda6
More about 1919

girls

1,130,117 girls got a published name in 1919; 1 in 188,353 of them was named Zilda, which outranked 23.5% of the 5,559 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Zilda
  1. #3,817Zofia7
  2. #3,817Zoila7
  3. #3,817Zuma7
  4. #4,251Zilda6
  5. #4,251Adalee6
  6. #4,251Addis6
  7. #4,251Adelheid6
  8. #4,814Abie5
  9. #4,814Adamae5
  10. #4,814Adie5

Tied with 562 names at #4,251; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1918
Risers
  1. 851Gregoria#1,805#954
  2. 443Concha#1,333#890
  3. 390Arlena#1,299#909
  4. 353Marina#1,255#902
  5. 333Roselle#1,333#1,000
Fallers
  1. 1,019Liberty#585#1,604
  2. 840Victory#809#1,649
  3. 567Karen#960#1,527
  4. 404Zena#989#1,393
  5. 359Malvina#989#1,348

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1919